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"Serious about safety: New tool aids in risk assessment" |
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Air safety doesn’t just happen. It’s the result of careful planning and preparation. Part of that preparation is evaluating any risks associated with every flight—a lesson the airlines have learned well, giving their pilots tools and rules for making a go/no-go decision.
Now the AOPA Air Safety Foundation has developed a risk evaluator tool for general aviation pilots. The ASF Flight Risk Evaluator highlights the factors pilots need to consider and provides an intuitive interview-style tool for assessing risks for each flight.
"Whether we think about it or not, as pilots we make judgments about risk every time we fly,” said Bruce Landsberg, president of the foundation. “For most of us, it’s a pretty informal thing—just something we do sort of automatically. But research has shown that there are real safety benefits to taking a more formal approach.”
In addition to the educational components typically found in Air Safety Foundation online courses, the ASF Flight Risk Evaluator allows a pilot to enter values for numerous risk factors, such as weather, runway length, experience, and currency, to generate a guidance list to help pilots make an informed go/no-go decision.
“By FAA regulation, the pilot is the final authority for the safety of any flight,” said Landsberg. “So the guidance our Flight Risk Evaluator provides is just that—guidance.
“But with it, a pilot can take a systematic approach to risk assessment for a clearer understanding of the risks to be considered for any given flight.”
By Chris Dandy, May 20, 2010
Note from Scope Aircraft Finance: This article is from the AOPA website and is linked directly to the AOPA Air Safety Foundation Flight Risk Evaluator. The Evaluator is free with registration to the AOPA site.
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"Mission to Haiti: Business Aviation Lends a Helping Hand" |
Scope participated in a small way in the airlift of supplies to Haiti following the January 12 eathquake that struck the island nation. A Beech King Air, owned by Scope, but on long-term lease to a corporate Lessee, was used to carry supplies and refugees.
Though Scope’s only involvement was to grant permission for the offshore flight, it was also an opportunity for us to feel like we played a small role in Business Aviation’s early response to the disaster.
Thanks to the generosity of the Lessee, the efforts of the staff at G.O. Ministries, and the dedication of the flight crew, they carried hundreds of pounds of emergency supplies in the cabin of the King Air, and consumed great quantities of coffee. For more information about G.O. Ministries, see their website at
http://www.go-ministries.org/.
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"Have You Ever Been Sleepy When Flying?" |
USAIG, America’s First Name in Aviation Insurance® and Alertness Solutions - two well respected companies in their fields who share a common safety vision – introduce the first science-based fatigue and alertness management solution that is designed to reduce risk for aviation professionals.
The Z-Coach Game Plan is web-based and available 24/7, making it accessible to employees who are geographically dispersed. It establishes a secure and private relationship between the individual user and Z-Coach.
The Z-Coach Program is unique to the aviation insurance industry because it focuses on the individual, providing practical tools for each person to understand and manage their personal fatigue thresholds and levels of alertness. It coaches the user on how to implement simple, but effective countermeasures to meet the challenges posed by stress, irregular work hours and the constant disruption of normal sleep habits - all things aviation professionals deal with almost every day.
David L. McKay, President and COO of USAIG said “Dr. Rosekind’s science based approach to fatigue management is here now, provides practical, real world fatigue countermeasures and we believe, if widely deployed and adopted, will have a major impact on improving aviation safety. We are thrilled to partner with Alertness Solutions to bring Z-Coach to our customers and help move this critical safety initiative forward.”
Z-Coach inventor, Dr. Mark Rosekind, President and Chief Scientist of Alertness Solutions, has spent two decades studying the science of sleep and fatigue management. USAIG has a remarkable eighty-one year history of – and commitment to – aviation safety. Please visit their website at:
www.alertnesssolutions.com
USAIG is making Z-Coach available to its corporate and turbine charter operator policy holders on beneficial terms, set forth in greater detail in their policies.
For additional information about the USAIG – Alertness Solutions program, contact Joan Mirabile, Vice President, USAIG, at 212-859-3910; E-mail
jmirabi@usau.com.
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Around the Office:
Scope associates are actively
involved in the Ohio Regional Business Aviation Association
(ORBAA), the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA),
and the National Aviation Finance Association (NAFA).
ORBAA
and its members were influential when it came to the NBAA
holding its Regional Forum in Dayton, Ohio – June 26,
2008. The ORBAA meeting was held the day before, and ORBAA
arranged tours of the National Museum of the United States
Air Force in Dayton, followed by a reception at the National
Aviation Hall of Fame. Later in the evening, ORBAA members
and their guests attended a dinner honoring Walter Pague as
a founding member of the NBAA Board of Directors.
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